Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Joslin spokesmen and previous Iacocca Fellow terry Maratos-Flier said at least a portion of the money might be used for additional fellowships, or for currently underfunded programs such as patient education on subjects like nutrition and diet...
...this would probably raise nary an eyebrow were it not for the fact that it follows a wholly unremarked-upon--except through the column of William Safire--incident involving Deaver early on in the Administration. Deaver, it seems, contracted with a book publisher to attach his name to a diet book--a move that could eventually net him several hundred thousand dollars. Thus Deaver became, as Safire pointed out, the first White House official ever to exploit "his public position for substantial commercial gain while still in office...
Track coach Frank Haggerty denies that the Harvard track program puts pressure on team members to diet. "We don't concern ourselves with weight. The heart weight indicates fitness. It is a fallacy with respect to this team that thinner is faster...
Lightweight Crew, which until recently required a boat average of 125, produced some of the most diet conscious athletes. But Dietz, who has been involved in lightweight crew for eight years and at Radcliffe for two years, helped to change the nature of lightweight weigh-ins on an international, national and collegiate level...
...Diet is going to become a lot less of an issue now they've got rid of the average weight of 125," says Lisa Zuckerman '87, a two year varsity veteran. "If the boat was over average, everyone would need to lose a pound. I remember a lot of people sucking down and getting really skinny...